This year Makerschool was grateful to receive grant support from the VELA Education Fund, which focuses on non-traditional and new approaches to education. VELA recently featured Makerschool in a “Selfie” video story about the work we are doing, and had a great writeup on the VELA blog: This fall, a team of instructors hosted a weekend workshop for teen girls to learn welding, woodshop, and metalshop skills. During the worst of the pandemic, Nova Labs even hosted a “makerscho

We’ve been busy and productive these last few weeks. We’re finishing phase 1 construction, separating our space from our tenant, SunDog. And in huge news, 1916 in Reston is now empty! All tools, materials, and furniture have moved to Nova Labs’ new home at 3850 Jermantown Road, Fairfax VA. Thank you to each and every one of our incredible, hard-working volunteers. The build-out, packing, and moving has been amazingly quick and even smoother than we had hoped. NL3 Current Stat

Happy New Year, members and friends! What an amazing year this has been! We started off with a dream of NL3, and here we are, the proud owners of a 38k sqft building, with construction well underway, and weeks away from moving in. Thank you for your ongoing support and patience - it has been a bumpy ride to get here, but we have made so much progress and we are excited to see what 2022 brings. VOLUNTOUR WEEKEND: January 8th and 9th we are going to have a NL3-wide volunteer ro

Greeting Nova Labs members and friends! First, we’d like to welcome our new Executive Director, Derrick Washington; you can learn more about him on the Nova Labs blog. He has great past experience and we are thankful to have him join us at this busy time. We are making great progress fo Please see the member Capital Ccampaign information and donate today! If you can’t directly donate, please share the message on social media or see what support your employer may provide. Our

Crafters Cove donation kiosk panel And we have another $15K added to our Donation Kiosk tracker! Thank you to Fabiana for leading the charge on the silent auction! Plus the Facebook fundraiser has captured over $5K to date (including some pending matching from Facebook on Giving Tuesday). We still need those donations coming in for the next few weeks so we can get ahead of the moving costs as well as submit them for the 2:1 match opportunity. Forward to your friends and famil